My lunches are so boring and unfun

[Gamplayerx]

But check out this guy's!  http://mushmo.livejournal.com/tag/fancy/themed

[Jessie]

That's pretty impressive.

[VikingJuice]

pastry, meat, cheese, bread and veggie tray fixins?  I don't see what the big deal is.  I've never cared about my food presentation much as long as it tastes good.  Flavor is where it's at for me,  the rest is just window dressing to spruce up an otherwise unimpressive meal.

but that's my two cents.

[BigDun]

I just made a buffalo burger with Gruyère cheese. It didn't look fancy, but it tasted delicious.

[dazie]

I love food that looks wonderful as well as tastes wonderful, but honestly- boiled egg white butterflies?  AND this woman has a child? 

I'd say she needs a hobby, but I'm guessing this whole fancy food thing IS her hobby.

It took me a while to figure out what she meant by "bento" and I'm still not sure- is that just a fancy name for Tupperware-ish lunch container?

[Jessie]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

[dazie]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

That would be fun.  I just can't imagine spending that much effort on my own lunch.

[Gamplayerx]

I love food that looks wonderful as well as tastes wonderful, but honestly- boiled egg white butterflies?  AND this woman has a child? 

I'd say she needs a hobby, but I'm guessing this whole fancy food thing IS her hobby.

It took me a while to figure out what she meant by "bento" and I'm still not sure- is that just a fancy name for Tupperware-ish lunch container?

You think it's a woman? 

According to Wikipedia, it's very Japanese to make these elaborate bento boxes.

[eo000]

I love food that looks wonderful as well as tastes wonderful, but honestly- boiled egg white butterflies?  AND this woman has a child? 

I'd say she needs a hobby, but I'm guessing this whole fancy food thing IS her hobby.

It took me a while to figure out what she meant by "bento" and I'm still not sure- is that just a fancy name for Tupperware-ish lunch container?

You think it's a woman? 

According to Wikipedia, it's very Japanese to make these elaborate bento boxes.

i thought it was a man, too.

[dazie]

A little further down in the blog she talks about how her husband got her a new bento.

[Jessie]

Yeah, somewhere along the line I picked up that it was a woman, too.

[Gamplayerx]

Oh.  Guess I was too distracted by the entertaining food to actually read.  

[eo000]

A little further down in the blog she talks about how her husband got her a new bento.

what's this got to do with holy cross???

[VikingJuice]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

When I was six I wouldn't have eaten half the stuff in that lunch.  Then again, I went on a bologna and cheese binge for like 5 years or so.  I've eaten bologna about 4 times total since.

[Gamplayerx]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

When I was six I wouldn't have eaten half the stuff in that lunch.  Then again, I went on a bologna and cheese binge for like 5 years or so.  I've eaten bologna about 4 times total since.

I would have eaten all that stuff.  I did go through a phase where I really loved the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  I wasn't allowed to have the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  Ice cream sandwiches were a dime.  Milk was 8 cents.  My mom gave me a dime every day and expected 2 cents change.  Being that I was like 6 and didn't have ready access to pennies, it took a lot of strategy on my part.  So for a few days, I'd forgo the milk and trade my dime for 5 pennies to build up a penny stash so that I could have a couple of days of ice cream sandwiches.

Man, those things were good.

[Jessie]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

When I was six I wouldn't have eaten half the stuff in that lunch.  Then again, I went on a bologna and cheese binge for like 5 years or so.  I've eaten bologna about 4 times total since.

I would have eaten all that stuff.  I did go through a phase where I really loved the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  I wasn't allowed to have the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  Ice cream sandwiches were a dime.  Milk was 8 cents.  My mom gave me a dime every day and expected 2 cents change.  Being that I was like 6 and didn't have ready access to pennies, it took a lot of strategy on my part.  So for a few days, I'd forgo the milk and trade my dime for 5 pennies to build up a penny stash so that I could have a couple of days of ice cream sandwiches.

Man, those things were good.

I can't decide if you were smart for planning that out, or dumb for selling a dime for five cents.

[Beefy]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kickinthehead/

[Jessie]

Oh that's fantastic.

[dazie]

These people have lots of time they don't spend doing other stuff.

If I manage to get a can of soup out of the cupboard, into the car, from the car into the building and up to my desk I count myself lucky.

Then I go out for lunch anyway, because honestly- who wants to eat a just a can of soup for lunch?

[Gamplayerx]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

When I was six I wouldn't have eaten half the stuff in that lunch.  Then again, I went on a bologna and cheese binge for like 5 years or so.  I've eaten bologna about 4 times total since.

I would have eaten all that stuff.  I did go through a phase where I really loved the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  I wasn't allowed to have the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  Ice cream sandwiches were a dime.  Milk was 8 cents.  My mom gave me a dime every day and expected 2 cents change.  Being that I was like 6 and didn't have ready access to pennies, it took a lot of strategy on my part.  So for a few days, I'd forgo the milk and trade my dime for 5 pennies to build up a penny stash so that I could have a couple of days of ice cream sandwiches.

Man, those things were good.

I can't decide if you were smart for planning that out, or dumb for selling a dime for five cents.

Both.  But it wasn't my dime and I got to eat ice cream sammiches. 

[VikingJuice]

Imagine being 6 years old and finding that kind of stuff in your lunch box each day. 

I think it's neat.

When I was six I wouldn't have eaten half the stuff in that lunch.  Then again, I went on a bologna and cheese binge for like 5 years or so.  I've eaten bologna about 4 times total since.

I would have eaten all that stuff.  I did go through a phase where I really loved the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  I wasn't allowed to have the school lunch ice cream sandwiches.  Ice cream sandwiches were a dime.  Milk was 8 cents.  My mom gave me a dime every day and expected 2 cents change.  Being that I was like 6 and didn't have ready access to pennies, it took a lot of strategy on my part.  So for a few days, I'd forgo the milk and trade my dime for 5 pennies to build up a penny stash so that I could have a couple of days of ice cream sandwiches.

Man, those things were good.

I can't decide if you were smart for planning that out, or dumb for selling a dime for five cents.

Both.  But it wasn't my dime and I got to eat ice cream sammiches. 

I can relate to that.  I'd scrounge pennies and nickels from everywhere I could find them for those things.  I'd even lick the foil wrapper they were packaged in.